The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 40
He said: “Open, Sesame!” and the door opened and shut behind him.
Who acts: Cassim, door · What happens: say, open, shut · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cassim, door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Open | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Open | punct |
| 5 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sesame | punct |
| 7 | Sesame | sesame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Open | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Open | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Open | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 opened | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opened | nsubj |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shut | cc |
| 15 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 opened | conj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shut | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cassim | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shut | participle | the door not said here | behind Cassim | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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